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There should be noise-activated dispensers overhead on trains which drop out packets of tissues like oxygen masks on a plane any time they detect someone sniffing more than twice. BLOW YOUR NOSE.

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The small victory of, having been unable to find any eyebrow pencils in the morning, discovering at 5pm when getting ready to go to the pub that both your good ones are in your work bag.

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Ray Newman's avatar Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social
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This is where I have a small, boring bit of advice, from my time managing a customer contact centre for a central government department: write letters to your MP asking them to raise issues with secretaries of state; make the letters unique, not copy-and-paste campaigns; be direct, not cranky.

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Get some photo ID in your fist and go put the rage in suffrage

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Janel Comeau's avatar Janel Comeau @verybadllama.bsky.social
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"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God

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Absolutely. Satire is such an important part of UK political culture but when it loses its teeth it's dangerous. It should be scary for those in power, not cosy. Or another term I'd use is "normalised deviance" - everyone collectively ignores the rot till it's no longer treatable.

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Yes, but it's not even exclusive to that social class. It's as you say, a way of treating everything as a game where you make the most serious matters of state into trivialities that you can extract advantage from. It's tawdry.

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No, it's gross, and it's a reflection of the way running the nation has been treated.

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Update: I found somewhere but had to argue them into it. The haircut isn't bad.

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One of those ones where I'm caught between standing my ground and saying "Can you just imagine I'm a man and freshen up my fade anyway?" and just walking off to spend my money elsewhere if I can find somewhere.

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Turns out the Inverness of 2024 is still a place where alongside the gay pride parade, Station Barbers will still refuse to cut my short hair because they "don't do ladies on a Saturday only gents".

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Think I'm going to launch a combination microbrewery, bulk waste collection and roadside assistance company. I'll call it a Hop, Skip and a Jump.

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Anon Opin's avatar Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social
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The Royal Family should be subscription only. Those who want to follow their wacky antics and family dramas can pay the hefty bill for it all. The rest of us get to live in blissful ignorance of the national soap opera and maybe those taxes can be used for something useful.

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Girl dancing to retro vinyl in the bar, are you the month of May 2024 because you're the hottest since records began.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious's avatar Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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This is like a buffet of different kinds of delicious schadenfreude canapes

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there are frequent reminders that palestinian lives just don’t count in the west, but an operation that killed 200+ to save 4 hostages being celebrated like it’s a success is a visceral one

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35-50yos now have brought back grandma names for our babies. Ruby, Edith, Olive etc. Are we prepared for the next generation of parents to name babies after people who are ~60-70 now? Nurseries full of Dianes, Patricias and Stans. I'm not sure I'm ready.

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TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU NEED TO ASK FOR HELP?

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Jo Kershaw's avatar Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social
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There’s some strange stuff out there (some of which reads like half-remembered SFF - the bit about using ULEZ cameras to activate bioweapons in people’s bodies is slightly reminiscent of Stross’s SCORPION STARE cameras, despite the fact that his politics are very definitely not alt-right populism)

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Gaelic and Farsi both use this word/sound for cat or kitten too.

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James Davis Nicoll's avatar James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social
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Remember the People's Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May! Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg!

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.

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Minor gripe about the NYT Spelling Bee puzzle, which I've become hooked on. I can understand not having geography words because where do you draw the line on towns, rivers etc. So why allow plant and bird names? Some really obscure words coming up! At least allow countries if you do that?

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Mary Gillis's avatar Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
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NORTHERN LIGHTS: Take my picture! Please! I don't look great now but the photos will be spectacular, bursts of green and pink! Take as many photos as you can! THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny

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Matthew Borus's avatar Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social
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There's a tradition of giving to those who are hungry before Seder.

Here's a link to give to UNICEF, one of the few aid organizations still operating in Gaza--which is facing a famine.

bit.ly/jewsforgazak...

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maybe I'm just sore because I'm too busy to make it up to Lochaber for lambing season this year

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also, seriously, just get on the Scotrail service you muffleheads, it runs 4 times a day, it costs £16.50, it's literally THE SAME ROUTE

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Can't help but suspect the trans and genderqueer community's strong spiritual connection to trains has in some ineffable way jinxed the "Harry Potter" train as punishment for a certain author's hateful transphobia www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/high...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 's avatar Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
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It's hard to talk about something if we can't see how insidious ideas got there in the first place. A history of antisemitism to illuminate where harmful anti-Jewish tropes remain alive in our discourse today-- and how to pull them out of legitimate political conversation. My latest:

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"A study found that states that restricted abortion access from 2018 to 2020 had a 75% higher rate of peripartum homicide — people who were killed while pregnant or in their first year after giving birth — than states without restrictions." 19thnews.org/2024/04/stat...

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